ROAD SAFETY

EDUCATION

CHECKLISTWilma Slinger, CROW

OVERVIEW

• Background and development

• Implementation

• Results so far

• Future steps

Background and development of the checklist

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NL CONCEPT OF ‘LIFE LONG

LEARNING’

• Road Safety Education (RSE) at important shifts in modes of traffic

participation

• Know-how, skills and attitudes for safe participation in traffic

• For all age groups: “from the cradle to the grave”

Preschool

education

‘learn in traffic’

Primary school

‘blind spot lesson’

Secondary school

‘Case 101’

Novice drivers

‘Traffic Battle’

License holders

‘Motorcycle – risk

course’

Elderly road users

’eBike Training’

TOOLKIT RSE INTERVENTIONS

• First step in quality assurance

• Inventory and assessment of RSE interventions

• Database with interventions classified by target group and educational

goals

• Used by professionals to give a recommendation about the ‘best

matched’ intervention

• Web-based: http://www.crow.nl/mobiliteit-en-gedrag/tools/toolkit

• Over 100 products in The Netherlands

EDUCATIONAL CHECKLIST

• Which steps are essential to the development of an effective

intervention?

• Have all these steps been passed through and have decisions been

substantiated?

• Inspired by ‘Intervention mapping’ methodology: tool for the planning and

development of health promotion interventions

• Evidence and theory based approach

10 STEPS

1. Problem analysis

2. Target group specification

3. Educational goals

4. Didactical principles

5. Content and lay-out of teaching materials

6. Assessment and evaluation during the intervention

7. Intervention manual

8. Implementation of the intervention

9. Process evaluation

10.Outcome evaluation

Implementation of the checklist

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ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE

1. Group assessment- two educational experts in each group- read through available documentation- have personal interview with producer- discussion about scores for each step

2. Documentation of group assessment

3. Producer comments on assessment and makes up improvement plan

4. Final assessment is added and assessments are published in RSE Toolkit website

5. Strong but also weak points of interventions are described

6. Interventions of producers who do not wish to co-operate are removed from the RSE Toolkit

Results so far

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INTERVENTIONS ASSESSED

Target group # in Toolkit # assessed

Preschool 3 2

Primary school 32 19

Secondary school 41 28

Novice drivers 8 6

License holders 6 2

Elderly people 7 6

Total 97 63

ASSESSMENT RESULTS

ASSESSMENT RESULTS

PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCES OF

CHECKLIST PROCESS

• Producers adjust and refine road safety education programs

• Re-assessment proces started

• NL road safety subsidy > 12 million Euro yearly (government)

• This Money is used more efficient and effective

LESSONS LEARNED

• Checklist useful development tool and assessment tool

• Checklist is prerequisite to quality, no guarantee for positive outcomes

• Producers adapt the 10 steps for the development of interventions

• Involvement of producers is needed (personal interview)

• Involvement of a group of assessors is needed: ratings need to be

discussed

• Assessment groups need to combine theoretical and practical

knowledge and expertise

Future steps

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EVALUATIONS NEEDED

• The checklist results give insight in the care and the precision by which

the program is produced

• But …. without an outcome evaluation there is no insight in the actual

safety changes in the behavior of road users

• Still not many outcome evaluations available in the field of road safety

education interventions

• Only about 9% of all RSE interventions have been evaluated in a sound

study using at least a quasi-experimental design (experimental and

control group, before and after measurement)

• 10 ‘golden rules’ of RSE evaluation studies

UNIVERSAL MEASURING ROD

• Development of standardized assessment instruments

• Compare similar interventions for similar target groups

• Give insight in most effective interventions

• Direct measurement of intended safe behavior in traffic

• Development of bicycle test for children in primary school:

- situation awareness

- hazard perception

- social behavior and moral reasoning

ULTIMATE GOAL

• All interventions are being developed according to the ten steps of the

educational checklist

• All interventions are being evaluated and monitored

• Only evidence-based interventions are being implemented and

subsidized by the government

Thank you for your attention!

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Wilma.slinger@crow.nl